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PayPal
How PayPal Became the KING of Online Payments
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Palestine
Palestinians reject US President Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan released on Tuesday. The Isreali president calls the plan "a reason for hope".
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peridot
Unlike emeralds which could look as dark as black in lowlight, _____ hold on to their green and gold vibrancy even in candlelight giving them the nickname emeralds of the evening.
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phi, Φ
The relationship between a number in the Fibonacci sequence and the previous number more and more closely approaches the irrational number Φ, the longer the sequence is continued. And Φ describes nothing other than the golden section.
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pigmy marmoset
Ninita is ridiculously cute but that's kind of a problem for her species. Along with habitat loss, the pet trade has been terrible for pigmy marmosets as well as most of the world's other primates.
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plague
○Yersinia Pestis, impetus, Justinian, moniker, sanitation, catapult, Byzantine, vulnerable
○Named after the emperor at the time, the Plague of Juastinian is estimated to have wiped out about half of Europe's population.
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Plague of Justinian
○pathegen, epidemic, disseminate, mortality, physiology, skeletal, nasty
○bug: (an illness caused by) a harmful microorganism such as a bacterium or virus
○novel: new or unusual in an interesting way
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Pope
Pope Sick After Voicing Support for Coronavirus Patients
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praying mantis
appendage, cannibalism, communal, abdomen, thistle, conspicuous, deimatic, iridescent, scant, deliberation, protrusion, blend, empusa, thorax, skewer, spiny, abdamen
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prime number theorem
The prime number theorem says that PI of x is asymtotically equivalent to x over log x. As a reminder, two sequences a sub n and b sub n are asymtotically equivalent if the limit as n goes to infinity of a sub n over b sub n is one.
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psi, Ψ
An important part is also played by the golden angle which divides the angle of 360° in the proportions of the golden section. As an angle smaller than 180° proved to be more handy in practice the smaller of the resultant angles is called the golden angle
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